Huck Pollsters: McCain Supports "Experiments on Unborn Children"

[Renew Deal]

By Paul Kiel - January 17, 2008, 11:26AM
This is certainly the nastiest line we've heard in the push polls going out to about a million South Carolinians. Respondents who say that they're supporting John McCain are told "Fact: McCain voted to allow scientific experiments to be done on unborn children." (Thanks to TPM Reader NC for flagging this for us.)

Patrick Davis, the executive director of Common Sense Issues, the group that's been paying for the automated calls, confirmed to me that such a line is used in the script: "He's in favor of stem cell research. That's the issue."

The medical experiments on unborn babies line is actually an old favorite of the group -- they used it in 2006 against now Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), when he was running against GOPer Michael Steele.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005091.php

[chaplainM]

1. SCIENTIFIC!!!!??

Them's fightin' words!